Events November 5 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is published. In 2001, the book would be listed as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. New Books Aphrodite in Aulis - George A. Moore As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner Bridal Pond - Zona Gale Cakes and Ale - W. Somerset Maugham A Flood - George A. Moore The 42nd Parallel - John Dos Passos Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum The Great Meadow - Elizabeth Madox Roberts Hitty, Her First Hundred Years - Rachel Field It's Never Over - Morley Callaghan The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes The Promised Land - Gilbert Lubin Rogue Herries - Hugh Walpole The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh Woman of Andros - Thornton Wilder Births January 23 - Derek Walcott, author February 17 - Ruth Barbara Rendell, writer August 16 - Ted Hughes, poet October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright Deaths March 2 - D.H. Lawrence, author July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes Awards Newbery Medal for children's literature: Rachel Field, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Conrad Aiken: Selected Poems Pulitzer Prize for the Novel: Oliver Lafarge - Laughing Boy